. >> to do what we have to do for a living, poor america. >> i don't think gitmo has a problem like that. they may on another national security issue be able to pass this treaty that the president just signed with the russians, the strategic arms reduction treaty start. i think that the republicans do not want to be on the wrong side of a national security issue. and i must say, a lot of these republicans who did not vote. they're in drug withdrawal. they've got to vote for something, these guys have to and they're going to find a way to do it. >> i have a hypothesis, the administration knows it's not going to get most of it. what it wants to do after health care is to try to say to base voters, look, we've got the other agenda items. if you don't come out and vote these things are not going to happen in our first turn. they're trying to gin up the base and enthusiasm for what happened in virginia, new jersey and massachusettsments they could be thinking that way, but i think the republicans are saying hold tight we're going to do well in november and we'll come back with more numbers an